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Fedora 45 : rust-crypto-bigint / rust-ctutils / rust-elliptic-curve / etc (2026-45268841b3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 376843

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 45 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-45268841b3 advisory.

 - Update the crypto-bigint crate to version 0.7.10.
 - Update the ctutils crate to version 0.4.8.
 - Update the elliptic-curve crate to version 0.14.3.
 - Update the num-bigint crate to version 0.5.1 and add a compat package for version 0.4.
 - Update the num-modular crate to version 0.7.0 and add a compat package for version 0.6.
 - Update the zmij crate to version 1.0.23.

 This update includes improvements to constant-time implementations in the crypto-bigint crate (assigned RUSTSEC-2026-0387).

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 Update to version 0.4.7.


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-45268841b3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 376843

File Name: fedora_2026-45268841b3.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2026

Updated: 11/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:45, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-crypto-bigint, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-ctutils, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-elliptic-curve, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-num-bigint0.4, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-num-bigint, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-num-modular0.6, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-num-modular, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-num-prime, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-zmij

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2026

Reference Information